Une pièce mécanique
2009 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Fontaine, Geisha (France) Cottreau, Pierre (France)
Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Une pièce mécanique
2009 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Fontaine, Geisha (France) Cottreau, Pierre (France)
Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Une pièce mécanique
“(...) There are diagonals, unisons, guns, stretching metal springs, sliding boxes and pistons, suddenly appearing screws and dowels, turns, and turning cogwheels. Time is counted, a precise mechanism is set in motion and let loose. It's about disrupting the performance by confronting the dancers with movements which never seem to want to stop.
It is a story of presence, the presence of two dancers, Alexandre Da Silva and Simon Nemeth, and of a mechanical corps de ballet. Original scenic sculptures, conceived by the visual artist Dominique Blais, create a dance of materials. These objects, given sound by Damien Mingus, are crafty. But this poetic machinery is a human story: a smile, a fall or an inclination can lead it astray.”
Geisha Fontaine and Pierre Cottreau
Further information
Updating: June 2013
Fontaine, Geisha
Choreographer, performer and researcher of dance, Geisha Fontaine began her career as a ballet dancer, then trained under Merce Cunningham and Alwin Nikolais in New York and Hideyuki Yano in Paris. She then set up the centre de danse contemporaine (Centre for Contemporary Dance) Le Dansoir in Toulouse and worked as a dancer for several contemporary dance companies. In 1998, she founded the Mille Plateaux Associés dance company with Pierre Cottreau. She was the winner of the Villa Médicis – Hors les murs residence in Japan in 2010.
Awarded her art PhD from the Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Geisha Fontaine was published by the Centre national de la danse (National Dance Centre) in 2004 (a book which has been translated into Spanish and Japanese), while “Tu es le danseur”, 2008 and “Là”, 2009, were published by Micadanses. She has collaborated on several joint publications, notably those published by CNRS. She is invited regularly as an artist and a researcher to various universities in France and abroad (Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Santiago…).
Further information
Mille plateaux associés website
Updated : june 2013
Cottreau, Pierre
Graduate of La Fémis (the French state film school), Pierre Cottreau began his artistic career as a producer and cinematographer and collaborated on several full-length films in this capacity. He explores the possible connections between the filmed image and dance. Having also studied art history, he experiments with image and film and where they overlap in different media: cinema, dance and photography. Since the creation of Mille Plateaux Associés, he has choreographed the company's pieces with Geisha Fontaine and produced several films and documentaries, in particular the evolutive film “Millibar”.
Further information : Mille plateaux associés website
Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).
Une pièce mécanique
Artistic direction / Conception : Geisha FONTAINE, Pierre COTTREAU
Choreography : Geisha FONTAINE, Pierre COTTREAU
Interpretation : Alexandre DA SILVA, Simon NEMETH Et : Eve BARNET, Félix BASSOUL, Orson BELLS, Gilles D., Marguerite DIAVOLO, Frédéric DUPAS, Enrique FAVORE, Aimé GODARD, Witold GRANOVITCH, Pier HUCK, Marie LUCAS, Rosa MALEBOURG, Hortense MARRIAULT, Pierre OGIER, Jules PARMÉNIDE, Paquita PARRA, Walter PENJAMIN, Marcel SANSAS, Laurence SILVER, Odile TAGLIONI, Sam TREVOR, Virginia VILA, Roberto VITTI, Li ZÉ avec la participation exceptionnelle de Louise LA LIMANDE
Lights : Arnaud KOSELEFF
Settings : Dominique BLAIS
Sound : Damien MINGUS
Other collaborations : Régie générale Charles-Édouard MAISONABE - Programmation informatique David OLIVARI, Stéphanie LE FRESNE - Réalisation des objets Matthieu AUDEJEAN, Delphine DUPUY, Charles-Édouard MAISONABE
Duration : 60 minutes
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